UMass will be present at the Linguistic Society of America's Linguistic Institute, held this July in the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Emmon Bach and Wynn Chao will be giving a joint course on Semantic Universals and Semantic Typology.
Joe Pater will be giving a class on Harmonic Grammar and running a workshop (with Matt Goldrick and Meghan Sumner) on Testing Models of Phonetics and Phonology.
Chris Potts (recent faculty member) will be giving a class on Computational Pragmatics.
Alice Harris will be giving an Institute Lecture on July 19 entitled "Agreement Puzzles: The Explanatory Power of Historical Linguistics." She will also be participating in the workshop "Challenges of Complex Morphology to Morphological Theory," on July 27th.
Rajesh Bhatt will be running a workshop on July 23 and 24 on using the Hindi-Urdu Treebank. He will also be teaching "Treebanking and the Theoretical Linguist," with Fei Xia of the University of Washington.
